Ten members of the Venezuelan band Aragua train have been sent to the American base of GuantanamoIn Cuba, the White House reported Wednesday.
“The first flights arrived at the Bay of Guantanamo yesterday afternoon from the passage”, Texas, and “there were ten members of the Transnational Train of Aragua,” said the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt At a press conference.
Before, the Pentagon said that “Ten high -risk illegal foreigners” They arrived in Guantanamo.
“They are currently housed in empty detention facilities,” says the Pentagon in a statement in which it does not specify the crimes they are accused of.
The Pentagon has explained that it is a temporary measure that they have taken from Washington “to guarantee the safe arrest of these people until they can be transported to their country of origin or other appropriate destination. ”
“The Department of Defense will continue to support the Department of National Security and other federal agencies in its efforts to facilitate the deportation of foreigners as soon as possible ”he pointed out in a letter this Wednesday.
Last week, the US president, Donald Trumpordered to prepare the facilities to receive 30,000 migrants And he said he will send “criminals” in an irregular situation.
“The United States Immigration and Customs Control Service takes this measure to guarantee the safe detention of these individuals until they can be transported to their country of origin or other appropriate destination,” says the Department of Defense.
The Venezuelan dictator regime Nicolás Maduro, To whom the United States does not recognize for considering its re -election, recently pledged to accept the return of its nationals, including gang members, expelled from the United States.
Trump carries out an operation against illegal immigration through raids in several cities and the revocation of the migratory legal routes of their predecessor Joe Biden.
Since he assumed the position on January 20 more than 8,000 migrants were arrested in an irregular situation, Of which 461 has been released for different reasons, explained the spokeswoman for the White House.
“It is less than 6% and there are reasons” such as “the lack of a significant probability of expulsion in the future,” the shortage of detention facilities and “other serious medical conditions,” he said.
“But none of them have final deportation orders” and many “They are probably challenging their immigration status”the spokeswoman said.
Guantanamo Bay prison was inaugurated in 2002 as part of the “War against terrorism” declared after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Since then it has been used to retain indefinitely to prisoners captured during wars and other operations.
It has also been used to Refill asylum seekers and refugees intercepted in the sea.
Some associations denounce the treatment that migrants receive in Guantanamo, based on testimonies that ensure that migrants are monitored when they call a lawyer, they are forced to wear sunglasses during transport and facilities are full of rats due to deplorable hygiene conditions.
(With information from AFP and EP)
